Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-10-26
Charges and COuatercharges Of A.
tempted Frauds In BalsimOre.

tempted Frauds In BalsimOre.
The Baltimore police have been arrestinR many
persons arrfv ng in the city tue last few ,ys on
suspicion that they are "repeatersr who intend to
attempt illegal voting at to-day's election The
democrats charge that they have secured evidence
tending TO show that some men were brought
from Philadelphia for the purpose Of illegally vot.
course, Indignantly repudiate any Intention OF
fraud, and hurl back the charge on the democrats
who, they declare, have made whoes lie arrests
the la few days OF persons TO whom no tust sr,s-
pcion attachcd, In order TO intimidate the colored
Reop,e and others and thus facilitate frauds on
on the arrival OF the Ericsson steamer from phil
adelphia at Baltimore yesterday morning the DO
lice arrested twenty-eleht men on suspicion OF
being repeaters They were sent 10 fail Thirteen
OF them were colore men Later they were ar
raigned De ore Justice Hobbs Harry Taylor, cob
Ored, testified that he lived at ia Stockton alley
Baltimore. He said he had been In Phila ,elphis
three weeks had lost his job, and then took the
the other men for further hearing.
STORY OF NAN WHO WAS LET 60
According to the Baltimore american Herbert
Wilson, colored man, who came from Philadel.
phia on the steamer and was arrested with the
other twenty-eight men, but was released without
being taken 10 the statiO1-hOuse tells the follow.
Ing story: II live In Baltimore at III Vincent
alley. l went to Philadelphia two weeks ago to
look ior WORK, and got job In cab stable. As
steamers wharf, In Philadelphia, Monday met
j. II. Taylor, coOred man, who lives In BaItt-
MOI ne SAD ne wanted to go TO baltimore but
price OF the passage, which did, and we gol on
the boat. Taylor told me be was going to vote for
we got 10 Light street wharf this morning an ON
Ger In citiZen's clothes came up and said to me:
DO you want Job?' said: what sort Of job;
go on an oyster boatT He laughed and said:
come down stairs When got down found
tweive colored men and thirteen while men in
"a detectivel, Whom had known, and SAID: GOOD
morning. He said: Hello, Wilson: how are your
ana turned 70 the policemen and said: let Wilson
go; he's all n bit. He used 70 work for G. A. Gam
brill Co. Another 0rncer asked me why came
here. told him, to vote. He said: do you think
your vote win do any good7 You had better stayed
where you were They let me go. ASH was on my
way home, at Saratoga and st. Paul streets met
another off1cer who asked me where came from
and where lived, andI told him. He said, If you
don't know anybody here I'll arrest you and take
you to tine station, and started TO do 1t. 1 met a
sergeant later, and told him, when he questioned
me, caLle 10 vote. He Said, You had better go
on before you get locked up went then to St.
Paul street TO get lawyer to get Taylor out OF
70 identity Taylor, and was driven out OF the sta
tion. The lawyer called me back. The turnkey
said you had better get out OF here before you
you want here? II you don't get out OF here III
identity you pretty quick went away. A cap
tain was on the boat who went to Philadelphia, ne
said, to get men TO go down the bay to dredge.
He was angry when he saw the men he had hired
locked up knew Taylor ten years ago. He had
i
man the policemen let CO."
THE MAN WHO MADE CONFESSION
Another crowd OF five men who had been ar
rested at the Union depot on the arrival OF Phila-
delphia train were arraigned before Justice Hobbs
at the same time as the steamboat arrests John
McDermOtt, the white man W made confession
10 Marshal Frey on Monday night that he had been
hired To come TO Baltimore TO vote the republican
ticket. TESTIFIED that Charles johnson, coored had
engaged him 10 come TO Baltimore to vote He
said johnson told him that II he was smart he
could vote the republican ticket and make some
money. He also said Johnson told him he would
pay MIN 3 In advance.
MEN FROM WASHINGTON ARRESTED.
The Baltimore American OF to-day also says:
"Charies Skinner. Of the firm OF CLANCY Skinner,
shipping agents. who brought four colored dredgers
from Washington yesterday, was arrested by
Omcer Mainz at p. m, simply because the party
SIDE OF the platform upon the arrival OF the train
at Camden station. The names OF the men were
VIM. DOnable, Charles Boss, VIM. Easton and JOS.
Layton. They ali claimed that they had come
here 10 go TO work as dredgers and got OF the east
side OF the platform as 1t nearer 10 the steamer
Sue, upon which they were to take their trip TO
the Potomac, where they were 10 ship as dredgers,
Justice Warned dismissed the cases.
1.-The republican and independent democratic
committees learned last night that Iarg
party OF political workers, numbering about
thirty, were at tavern on the Frederick road,
near the station Of the Baltimore and Potomac
Railroad. prominent government Official was
seen In company with about thirty men 10 the 9Th
street station OF the Baltimore and Potomac Rail-
road, In w sshington, and as he went from group
Baltimore. The whole crowd took tn 1905 o. M
train, and Sot on at the Frederick Road station.
When the train, which leIt Washington at g p. m,
reached Frederick Road station, at TAI o. m. the
same official was seen on the platform with a
number Of the men who were seen with him in
tired and muddy, with his face mufiied up In his
overcoat and Game into this city. The gang VIII
be brought into this city early this morning.